Divorced. By Cinemactress Gene (Laura) Tierney, 31, who claimed that "he didn't give me a dime in ten years": Manhattan Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, 38; after 10 1/2 years of marriage, a rift in 1946-48, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Gregory La Cava, 59, oldtime top Hollywood director (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door); of a heart attack; in Malibu, Calif.

Died. Sherman Hoar Bowles,* 61, who parlayed an inherited newspaper (the Springfield, Mass. Republican) into a multimillion-dollar empire; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting with the paper founded in 1824 by his great-grandfather, Bowles finally owned large slices of Bell Aircraft Co., Manhattan's Longchamps restaurant chain, Atlas Tack Co., a Wall Street skyscraper. Involved for nearly two decades in skirmishes with his unionized Springfield employees, he tried, in 1947, to deliver his own papers from his strike-crippled Daily News plant, got fined $25 for piloting the paper's truck without a driver's license.

Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island, N.C.

Died. Keats/- Speed, 72, veteran newsman, longtime (1916-50) editorial boss of the New York Sun, heartbroken presider over its setting when the 116-year-old paper was submerged in the Scripps-Howard chain in 1950; of a heart attack after two years in retirement; in Manhattan.

Died. General Theodorus Pangalos, 73, who let his power as Greek army chief of staff go to his head, engineered a coup d'etat in 1925, the following year rigged a phony plebiscite to get himself elected President, proceeded to abolish the constitution and make his own laws until an army cabal booted him out after 14 turbulent months; of tuberculosis; in Athens.

Died. Howard Chandler Christy, 79, famed painter of glossy portraits (Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Benito Mussolini) and illustrations (the memorable World War I "Fight or Buy Bonds" posters); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once, asked to do a series of paintings showing the evolution of the American girl, whom he had long glorified with pen and brush, Christy begged off: "Gosh! She's never evoluted . . . same old girl she always has been."

* A cousin of U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles.

/- A great-nephew of British Poet John Keats.

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